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tint about the tornus, wp. al. 19 mm. Hindwings greyish brown, slightly paler toward the base ; 
cilia greyish brown. Abdomen and Legs greyish brown. 
Type 2 (65941) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65943) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. GuaremaLa: ‘Totonicapam, 8500-10,000 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. Champion) ; 
Quiché Mts., 7000-9000 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. Champion). Three specimens. 
2. Ectaga canescens, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 2.) 
Antennae hoary greyish, delicately annulate with brownish fuscous beyond the middle. Palpi hoary 
greyish; the median joint with projecting brush-like scales above and beneath, and with three brownish 
fuscous bands externally and beneath; terminal joint short, slender, with a small median band and 
the extreme apex brownish fuscous. Head and Thorax hoary grey. Forewinys hoary grey, profusely 
sprinkled with brownish and brownish fuscous scaling, forming a somewhat dense shade from the costa 
to the middle of the fold, but leaving the basal, dorsal, and terminal portions of the wing less obscure, 
with the exception of a narrow.terminal shade continued around the apex, and a small spot at the 
extreme base of the costa; cilia hoary grey, much speckled with brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 16 mm. 
Hindwings straw-whitish, with a brownish cinereous tinge toward the apex; cilia pale brownish 
cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous, speckled and shaded with brownish fuscous. Legs pale 
brownish cinereous; hind tarsi obscurely banded with pale brownish fuscous. 
Type Q (65945) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GuerReRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (A. H. Smith). Unique. 
3. Ectaga lictor, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 1.) 
Antennae simple in ¢; hoary whitish, adorned with triangular fuscous spots throughout their length. Palpi 
hoary, minutely sprinkled with fuscous ; terminal joint hoary, tipped with fuscous. Head and Thorax 
hoary. Forewings hoary greyish, with an obliquely placed streak of raised blackish scales at about 
one-fourth the wing-length, running from the upper edge of the cell to about the middle of the fold, 
a blackish dot lying at the end of the cell; a slight sprinkling of brownish scales occurs at about the 
middle of the dorsum and in the direction of the apex, a strong shade of the same colour, accompanied 
with greyish fuscous, occupying the costa from above the black streak to the apex; cilia hoary, with 
a few brownish scales accompanied by some of a more greyish shade. Hap.al.18 mm. Hindwings 
shining, whitish cinereous; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous, Legs pale 
cinereous, sprinkled with greyish fuscous externally ; hind tibiae with long pale hairs above. 
Type 3 (65944) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. GUATEMALA: Quezaltenango, 7800 ft., 1880 (G. C. Champion). Unique. 
The colouring of this insect is extremely difficult to describe, but one peculiarity is 
very noticeable, namely, that many of the scales on the forewings have a distinct pale 
cinereous, almost whitish, margin, their centres being brownish or greyish fuscous, 
according to the prevalent shade on that portion of the wing. 
DASYCERA Stph. 
= § Dasyozrus Hw. ; =*Oxcorxora (Ltr.) Crt.; = Srenoprera Dp. 
Type 1: Tinea olivierella F. (=foliviella F., Stph.; =aemulella Hb.; Dp. 1838). 
Dasycera Stph.=§ Dasycrrvs Hw. Lp. Br. 524-5 no. 29 sp. 1-2 (1828). Dasycera Stph. Syst. 
Cat. Br. Ins. 2 199-200 no. 297 sp. 7242-38 (1829). *Oxcopwora Crt. Guide Br. Ins. 180 
no. 1003 sp. 1-2 (1831) : Br. Ent. 9 expl. Pl. 408 (1832); Stph. Il. Br. Ent. Heust. 4 
227-9, 400 no. 380 sp. 1-2 (1834). Dasycrera Dp. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 7 144 no. 24 (1838) : 
HN. Lp. Fr. 11 22, 409-12 no. 24 sp. 1630 Pf. 803°1 (1838), OxcorHora (A. Dasycera 



